The J Crew

It’s because of the travel reduction initiative. Two home games vs the Suns followed by two road games versus the Jazz. Saves the Suns a 2nd trip to New Orleans and the Pels a 2nd trip to Utah.

True. And they did just get Bogdan Bogdanović back. And AJ Griffin is playing well as a rookie. Capela is having a nice season. Trae vs. Ja will always be fun.

We are catching the Hawks at a good time. In tumoil and injured. Should coast to our 6th straight win on Monday.

Good God, is it that hard to just admit that you just wrong?

Maybe because Shai continues to play great and his efficiency never was dropping, lol? But since you seem determined to argue things that aren't true, see the graph below. His PER is 27.5, 6th in the entire league. Again, if you don't like Shai for whatever reason, fine, but don't make up stuff. Advanced Rk Player Pos Age Tm G MP PER ▼ TS% 3PAr FTr ORB% DRB% TRB% AST% STL% BLK% TOV% USG% OWS DWS WS WS/48 OBPM DBPM BPM VORP 1 Anthony Davis C 29 LAL 21 700 31.9 .655 .073 .429 10.5 27.5 19.2 13.8 1.8 5.5 8.4 28.6 2.8 1.3 4.1 .284 6.4 2.1 8.5 1.9 2 Luka Dončić PG 23 DAL 23 847 31.2 .610 .363 .464 2.7 25.5 14.0 47.1 2.4 1.8 11.9 37.7 3.3 1.3 4.6 .262 8.4 2.6 11.0 2.8 3 Nikola Jokić C 27 DEN 21 677 31.1 .702 .174 .453 6.7 29.5 18.1 43.9 1.9 1.7 16.5 26.4 3.4 0.8 4.2 .299 7.9 3.6 11.5 2.3 4 Giannis Antetokounmpo PF 28 MIL 20 659 30.0 .598 .152 .569 6.5 28.4 17.7 33.9 1.2 2.5 12.0 39.0 1.8 1.3 3.1 .224 6.5 2.7 9.2 1.9 5 Joel Embiid C 28 PHI 16 565 29.5 .624 .167 .601 5.4 26.2 15.8 27.3 1.6 4.6 13.9 37.7 1.6 1.0 2.6 .221 5.8 2.8 8.6 1.5 6 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander SG 24 OKC 23 820 27.5 .617 .149 .483 2.6 1

??? They are 13-11, won at Denver Tuesday night, & have won 3 in a row. I would not want to face Dallas in the playoffs.

Shai is good at a lot more than drawing fouls. And saying he "pads" his numbers obviously implies it's somehow a bad thing. The ability to draw fouls is a very valuable tool, and tends to be repeatable. It's a very good thing.

So being able to draw fouls is somehow a bad thing? Ja averages 9 FTAs pg too, is that bad? Shai can get to the rim on anyone. Shai is averaging 31, 5 & 6. I know most aren't watching the Thunder much, but Shai is the real deal.

3 to 4 additional weeks out is what's new. Might be nothing to you, but missing another month of the 6 month NBA season is kind of a big deal to most Grizzly fans.

Warriors lose to the Pacers without Haliburton and Myles Turner on Monday. And last night, blow a 4 point lead in the last 10 seconds to lose to Utah in regulation.

Re the fracture, who knows? Grizz FO doesn't have a history of being transparent on player injuries. The time frame tells us more than they do.

Jerry Sichting was a good player. Hung around for a while.

That is cool, the seat. Who was his brother?

****, you are on Shai's *** for some reason. We went through this a couple of weeks ago, when you said his "efficiency" stats were declining. Since then, he's done this: Shai is awesome. It's ok not to like a player, but he's a #1 for sure.

Let's go back to the great Jeff Stotts and In Street Clothes. He did a blurb on Des' injury on November 15th. No mention of the sesamoid, which is slightly concerning. https://instreetclothes.com/2022/11/15/understanding-desmond-banes-grade-2-big-toe-sprain/ "Over 150 cases of big toe sprains have occurred in the NBA since the 2005-06 season. The average time lost for big toe sprains that resulted in missed time was roughly 10 days (~4.0 games). Memphis’ estimated timeline of two-to-three weeks is longer than this projection, likely due to the severity of Bane’s injury. A Grade 2 sprain means the ligaments involved in the injury have been partially torn."